Boom_Confetti's Week Pre-Season Ballot

Rank	Team	Reason
1	Purdue	Purdue usually looks like world-beaters during November and December. During these early months, they will be the clear best team in the country, but idk if that’s still the case by mid-January
2	Duke	Think Filipowski wins NPOY
3	Kansas	Not entirely convinced on Dickinson’s fit, so Duke gets the nod
4	Marquette
5	Houston
6	Creighton
7	Michigan State	MSU will be very good, but I think their freshmen are being overvalued (Fears is stuck, Carr and Booker are raw)
8	UConn
9	Arizona	Past 2 years Lloyd’s teams have been undervalued early
10	Texas A&M	Will take an early ugly loss or two, but will be very very good
11	Florida Atlantic	Scrimmage result scares me a wee bit
12	Baylor
13	Kentucky
14	Saint Mary's	Very undervalued
15	Gonzaga
16	San Diego State
17	Tennessee	Hype unclear, usually hovers around 5 seed range all year
18	Miami (FL)
19	Illinois	TSJ second best player in big ten
20	Arkansas	Usually takes a minute to gel
21	Colorado	Boyle extremely underrated coach, very talented, I think they’ll wind up much higher
22	USC
23	North Carolina
24	Alabama
25	UCLA

Overall Rationale

Maryland is my #26. Texas - To me, Rodney Terry flashes serious Mike Davis or Kevin Ollie red flags. His team last year was very talented and very old, saw a commenter call it “self-coaching” once and I think that fits. Think Nova and Wisconsin are a bit overhyped, but at this stage doesn’t really matter. College of Charleston will be ranked in the national polls at some point, but hard to justify this early.